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  26 June 2021
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Missio Austria launches the "Editio Missio" series: "Every book is a motivation for the reader to become a missionary" Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies in Austria (Missio Austria) are opening new horizons. In addition to the magazine called "allewelt", which has been published for more than 60 years and which has ...
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  26 June 2021
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - The Church promotes interreligious dialogue among young people, in the spirit of "Fratelli Tutti" Singapore (Agenzia Fides) – To promote interreligious dialogue among young people: this is one of the initiatives and guidelines of the Church of Singapore, which in 2021 celebrates 200 years since the arrival of the C ...
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  26 June 2021
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - "Alongside displaced people and children, in the name of the Gospel": the commitment of the Capuchin friars in times of crisis Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - "The great crisis in which Cameroon is currently involved, relating to the tensions in the English-speaking regions of the country, generates heavy effects in various sectors from school to th ...
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  26 June 2021
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Bishop Seitz to Vice President Harris: "I welcome in the name of Christ, present in the poor who knock on our door" Texas (Agenzia Fides) - "As a pastor, I also welcome you on behalf of Christ, present in our borderland community in so many beautiful ways—present in our resilience, our spirit of compassion and service,” he said in ...
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  26 June 2021
  ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - The Middle East Council of Churches invites to join in the consecration of the region to the Holy Family: our land "attracts" wars, let’s ask the Savior for help Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Middle East has become an optimal geopolitical space to unleash "wars by proxy" that turn into a sort of "rotating slaughter" for local populations, victims of conflicts "that end in one plac ...
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  26 June 2021
  NEWS ANALYSIS - Among poverty and instability, the prophetic voice of the Church in Congo Uvira (Agenzia Fides) - "Whether it is foreign powers (France, Belgium, USA, or others), neighboring countries (Uganda, Rwanda, etc.) or some Congolese leaders, warlords, multinationals, NGOs, or even some members of the ...
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  25 June 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - The new Constitution must recognize the right to education and the freedom of education at all levels Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - After the result of the plebiscite of October 25, 2020 (see Fides, 27/10/2020), held after a long period of crisis that Chile is going through in all fields - political, economic, social and re ...
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  25 June 2021
  AFRICA - "We must save children from violence and moral depravity": alarm in West Africa Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - In the West African area, the situation of children is increasingly worrying. Child soldiers who took part in riots and civil wars, children exploited in cocoa and cotton plantations or who work ...
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  25 June 2021
  AFRICA/MALI - "We are sure of the release of the 4 lay people, but Fr. Léon is still missing", says the parish priest of Mopti Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The 4 parishioners have returned to Ségué, but we have not yet seen Fr. Léon Dougnon", says to Fides Fr. Amoudou Kizito Togo, parish priest of Mopti, specifying the circumstances of the relea ...
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  25 June 2021
  AMERICA/CUBA - The Bishops: "let's not be discouraged when everything around us seems to go against the family institution" Havana (Agenzia Fides) - During the recent Extraordinary Plenary Assembly of the Cuban Episcopate, held from June 14 to 18 in Havana, several themes were discussed, as reported by the note sent to Fides. The Bishops in p ...
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  25 June 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Filipino Bishops praise the contribution of former president Benigno Aquino jr for human dignity and democracy Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Philippines praise the contribution offered to the life of the nation by the former President of the Philippines Benigno S. Aquino jr III, who has just passed away: "The Bishop ...
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  25 June 2021
  ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - Catholic Churches are preparing to consecrate the Middle East for the Holy Family of Nazareth Nazareth (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Churches present in Middle Eastern Countries are preparing to celebrate the first "Day of Peace in the East" on Sunday, June 27, which this year will also be characterized by a spe ...
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  25 June 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Six new Salesian priests, "gift and hope for the nation" Mandalay (Agenzia Fides) - "The ordination of six new Salesian priests is a great gift and hope for the nation. The mission of each of them is to announce and live the Gospel and to be a Good Shepherd in this time of cri ...
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  24 June 2021
  ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - The Pope joins the Consecration of the Middle East to the Holy Family: Middle Eastern Christians are witnesses and guardians of the faith of the Apostles Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Churches present in Middle Eastern countries are preparing unanimously to consecrate the Middle East to the Holy Family of Nazareth, and the Successor of Peter joins his brothers in ...
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  24 June 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Day of prayer and mission: the Brazilian missionary Church in Mozambique Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops' Commission for the Missions of the Bishops' Conference of Brazil (CNBB) and the Pontifical Mission Societies, are promoting the fourth edition of the "Day of Prayer and Mission" fo ...